Harry Hodson
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Henry Vincent "Harry" Hodson (12 May 1906 – 26 March 1999) was a British economist and editor.

Career

Hodson was born in Edmonton, London
Edmonton, London
Edmonton is an area in the east of the London Borough of Enfield, England, north-north-east of Charing Cross. It has a long history as a settlement distinct from Enfield.-Location:...

. He was educated at Gresham's School
Gresham's School
Gresham’s School is an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt in North Norfolk, England, a member of the HMC.The school was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham as a free grammar school for forty boys, following King Henry VIII's dissolution of the Augustinian priory at Beeston Regis...

, Holt
Holt, Norfolk
Holt is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The town is north of the city of Norwich, west of Cromer and east of King's Lynn. The town is on the route of the A148 King's Lynn to Cromer road. The nearest railway station is in the town of Sheringham where access to the...

, and Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College, Oxford
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, becoming a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford
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, in 1928. He was later a member of the Economic Advisory Council
Economic Advisory Council
Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India is a non-constitutional, non-permanent and independent body constituted to give economic advise to the Government of India, specifically the Prime Minister. The council serves to highlight key economic issues facing the country to the...

 and Editor of The Round Table
The Round Table Journal
The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs is a policy matters journal relating to the Commonwealth of Nations.-History:...

from 1934-1939. He was Director of the Empire Division of the Ministry of Information from 1939 to 1941, then became Reforms Commissioner of the Government of India.

Returning to England in 1942, he was made Principal Assistant Secretary and later Head of Non-Munitions, at the Ministry of Broadcast until 1945.

At the end of the Second World War, he returned to journalism, becoming assistant editor of The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times (UK)
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, and was editor from 1950 until 1961. He was editor of The Annual Register from 1973 until his retirement in 1988. He died on 26 March 1999.

From 1927, Hodson was a freeman of the Mercers' Company
Worshipful Company of Mercers
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 by right of patrimony. In 1964, he was Master of the company. He was made Provost of the Ditchley Foundation
Ditchley Foundation
The Ditchley Foundation is a British organisation based at Ditchley House near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, which aims to promote international relations, especially Anglo-American relations, through a programme of around fifteen annual conferences on matters of international interest...

 in 1961.

In 1933 he married Margaret Elizabeth Honey.

He died in Kensington and Chelsea
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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, London
London
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, aged 92.

Publications

Hodson's publications include:
  • Economics of a Changing World (1933),
  • The Empire in the World (1937),
  • Slump and Recovery (1929, revised 1937 and 1938),
  • The British Commonwealth and the Future (1939),
  • Twentieth Century Empire (1948),
  • Problems of Anglo-American Relations (1963),
  • The Great Divide: Britain-India-Pakistan
    The Great Divide (book)
    The Great Divide is a book by H. V. Hodson, written on the subject of Partition of British India . The book is published by Oxford University Press.-References:*...

    (1969), and
  • The Diseconomics of Growth (1972).

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